Deadlines: June & July
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: the Frontier Industry Prize, the BLP open reading period, the Winter Tangerine Prize, Rhino Poetry and more.
DEADLINE: 7/15
FEATURED: 2019 Frontier Industry Prize: One Poem//$3000
Judged by industry greats Jeff Shotts, Kwame Dawes, & Sarah Gambito. Open to emerging poets with no more than two full-length collections. Only ONE poem per submission. No line-limit. 2nd and 3rd place poems will receive $200/$100 respectively & publication with Frontier.
Reading Fee: $20
DEADLINE: 6/24
Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest
The contest has been extended, but time is running out! Send them 20-40 pages of poetry. Winner receives $1,000, publication & 100 copies. This year’s judge is Tongo Eisen-Martin.
Reading Fee: $18
DEADLINE: 6/28
Blue Mountain Review
Submit to BMR now and hear back in under a month. They want up to three poems. Any length or style accepted.
Reading Fee: $5
DEADLINE: 6/30
Split Lip Magazine
Split Lip seeks innovative work by fresh voices. Only 1 unpublished poem per submission. Web payment rate of $50. No reading fee for the month of June. What have you got to lose?
Reading Fee: $0. (Option for expedited response within two weeks: $5)
DEADLINE: 6/30
Black Lawrence Press
Get those manuscripts ready! BLP has an open reading period 6/1 – 6/30 for chapbooks (16 – 36 pages) and full-length books (45 – 120 pages).
Reading Fee: $12
DEADLINE: 6/30
The Raw Art Review’s William Wantling Prize for Poetry
Judged by John D. Robinson. The winning poem will receive $200 with five additional poems receiving $25 honorable mention awards. 3 poems per entry. Previously published poems OK.
Reading Fee: $15
DEADLINE: 6/30
2019 Los Angeles Review Poetry Award
Judged by Matty Layne Glasgow. Submit up to 3 poems, no more than 50 lines each. Winner will receive $1,000 and publication both in LAR Online and in the best-of annual print edition.
Reading Fee: $20
DEADLINE: 7/1
2019 Winter Tangerine Poetry Award
For all you new & emerging poets (i.e. those who have never published a full-length book). Tiana Clark will judge. Submit up to 4 poems totaling no more than 8 pages. There is a $250 prize for the winner and $50 for finalists who will all be published in WT Issue #6 in early 2020.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 7/4
2019 Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest
Headmistress Press, a lesbian-identified publisher of books by LBT poets, announces their 5th annual chapbook contest judged by Robin Becker. 1st prize winner will receive $300 plus 20 copies of the winning book. All entries considered for publication. No more than 35 pages.
Reading Fee: $10 – $20 Sliding Scale, with fee waived upon request.
DEADLINE: 7/15
Asheville Poetry Review
Send 3-6 poems, any length or style, to this annual literary journal.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 7/15
$10,000 Rattle Poetry Prize
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 (!) for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each, along with publication and eligibility for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award. Submit up to 4 poems. No line- limit.
Reading Fee: $25, which includes a one-year subscription to Rattle
DEADLINE: 7/16
The Comstock Review 2019 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest
First prize: $1,000, Second prize: $250, Third prize: $100. Honorable Mentions receive a one-year subscription. This year’s contest is judged by David Kirby. Submit up to 5 unpublished poems. Each poem must be a maximum of 40 lines. NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS.
Reading Fee: $27.50
DEADLINE: 7/31
Rhino Poetry (General Submissions)
RHINO seeks previously unpublished poems, translations, and flash-fiction. Send them 3-5 poems (no more than 5 total pages). All poems automatically considered for their Editor’s Prize.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 7/31
Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art
Submit 3-5 poems. All styles welcome, including experimental and hybrid forms as well as translations. They encourage work by West Virginian and Appalachian writers.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 7/31
Sugar House Review
Send them up to 5 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. SHR notes that they are capped at 300 submissions per month and then the reading period closes, so act fast!!
Reading Fee: $0 (Fast-track is $3 with a response in 30 days or less)
DEADLINE: 7/31
Fairy Tale Review
FTR seeks poems for their print issue, the Coral Issue, to be published in March 2020. Submit up to 5 poems (no more than 10 pages). They are especially interested in environmental poetry.
Reading Fee: $0